I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.
TOM PETTYThere goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
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There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I’m concerned, that’s success.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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At the end of the day, you’re just phonograph records.
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Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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